Word: commenting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...bake sale, the four-year-old son of Cabot's head resident came in wearing pajamas. "Oh no!" was his only comment...
...them against a European landscape, and turned them loose in what has always been a typical American literary form-the novel of youthful escape and adventure. From Huckleberry Finn to On the Road, the characters in such stories yearn for joyful freedom; their picaresque progress becomes a disapproving comment on the society they are trying to flee. Forced back into confrontation with that society-as the main characters in Irving's fine first novel are-they tend to dream up quixotic schemes for drastically revising the world they hoped to reject. In this case, the reform involves an inspired...
...Brentano office in New York was unavailable for comment on the group's charges. The Phillips store manager, Margaret Specht, said only that she expected "an amicable settlement...
Shurcliffe winds up his book with a nearly-superfluous "Editorial comment," urging the U.S. to keep aviation from becoming "man's scourge." The plea has convinced the League's members and some 20 anti-boom groups across the country: the real question is whether it can convince Congress...
...influence of newspapers, magazines, TV and radio becomes more pervasive, judges are locking up juries with increasing frequency in long criminal trials to prevent them from hearing or reading comment that might influence them. Even when they are not sequestered, jurors in such cases can look forward to an experience that is usually grueling-and sometimes disillusioning...